Improvement in culinary boilers



UNITED STATES ATENT CFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULINARY BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,356, dated July 25, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH C. WHITEHoUsE, of Hodgdons Mills, in the ooiuity of Lincoln and State of Maine, have invented a new and linproved Culinary Boiler; and I do hereby declare that the followin gisa full, clear, and exaetdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing form` ing part of this specication, in which the drawing represents a vertical central section of my improved culinary boiler.

This invention relates to a new self-draining kettle and strainer for boiling or steaming vegetables, fruit, meat, 85o., and consists in the use within an ordinary kettle of an inner vessel perforated at the bottom and near the top, and in I the combination therewith of a removable false bottom for steaming purposes.

A in the drawing represents a culinary boiler of suitable construction and-arrangement. B is a vessel made of sheet or east metal, smaller than the vessel A, so that it will lit into the same. The shoulder a of the vessel B rests on the sh oulder b of A, as shown. The lower part ofthe inner kettle B is perforated at c, as shown, and its upper part, close below the cover e, is also perforated, as at d. The main body of the inner kettle, however, above the shoulder a, is not perforated, so that its contents may remain whole and will not be disintegrated by the boiling" proeess. C is a false perforated bottom placed upon the shoulder a to keep the contents from the water when they are to be steamed. The upper apertures of the kettle B prevent the water from boiling over the top, and allow it to escape without raising the cover. The inner kettle will always be selldraining, as all water escapes as quick as it is raised out of the boiler A.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters l?atent- 

